Thus, Congress would agree that the new revenue code would raise X percent of GDP in taxes without regard to what revenues would otherwise be under some baseline.

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The opportunity is here for women, in this Olympic year of 2012, to rise up to the challenges of code and contribute our X factor so that global society can make quantum leaps in innovation again.

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Windows Phone 8 allows developers to run native code on the handset, Windows Phone 7.x does not.

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Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.

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Moreover, with OS X, Apple has a base of stable, well-understood code that allows it to add incremental improvements, on a regular basis, for years.

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With OS X, Apple has a base of stable, Unix-based code, making it easy for Apple to plop down small improvements on a regular basis.

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The final build that goes out as an OTA update will apparently be version 2.1, although that's not totally confirmed yet -- we're told that there are references to a "Nova-Barleywine" in the code, but it's not clear if that's another 2.x version or something else entirely.

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Controversial TV such as the 2010 X Factor final, which raised eyebrows with its raunchy performances from Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, complied with the broadcasting code, he pointed out.

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